Bashara faces sentence in hit man scheme Monday

DETROIT (AP) -- A Detroit-area man is returning to court for his sentence after admitting he tried to hire a hit man to kill a suspect in his wife's slaying.

Robert Bashara (buh-SHER'-uh) of Grosse Pointe Park pleaded guilty in October. He's due in court Monday for his punishment.

Bashara admits he tried to arrange the killing of his handyman, Joe Gentz, who has been in jail since March when he was charged with strangling Jane Bashara. Robert Bashara was doomed when his scheme was secretly recorded by a business associate.

Jane Bashara was killed in her garage last January, and her body was found in her car miles away in Detroit. Robert Bashara insists he had no role in her death, but police have called him a person of interest.